How to Legally Download Music from YouTube on Mac?

Many people are YouTube fans. YouTube is a place where lets us share our videos, audios with friends on the web. We can browse all sorts of videos and find our favorite one. So we have often encounter a nice video or audio and want to download them to computer for enjoyint all the time. Do you ever get confused that is it legal to download music from YouTube? This article will offter a satisfactory answer now.

Why download music from YouTube on Mac?

Perhaps you will have a variety of reasons about why download music from YouTube on Mac, but here are the real reasons to download YouTube music.

1. Easily play music offline, no bandwidth limiting;
2. Enjoy the music on the move, do not need to connect to the network;
3. Convert/burn the music to a CD for a backup.

How to Download YouTube Songs Legally on Mac?

It is easy to download songs from YouTube on Mac OS X. It's just need a YouTube Music Downloader for Mac. Here we recommend Video Downloader for Mac, it can download online videos and audios from various video sharing websites, including YouTube, Google video, Yahoo video, Facebook and more.

Step 1: Free download and install this YouTube Music Downloader for Mac on your Mac computer.

Step 2: Visit youtube.com and search your favorite music or video on YouTube. At the same time, this powerful software will detect the downloadable video and audio automatically. A "Download" button will show you, click it to add the music to the downloaded queue.

Step 3: After downloading, you can find the downloaded YouTube music by clicking "Library" item. To extract audios from videos, you need to click "Convert" button and select the suitable output audio formats for your player. Just so, now you can import the YouTube music to your player for enjoying.

Is It Legal to Download Music from YouTube

I think you must know it is legal to record TV shows with a DVR for watching later. Likewise, downloading music or video from YouTube should NOT be considered illegal, if you just want to enjoy the media files personally.

Now you have a clear idea on how to legally download music from YouTube on Mac, isn't it? If you are satisfied with the downloaded YouTube music, you can free download the software to try it now.